“Geniuses never pay attention.”

“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.”

“I'd Like To Pay Attention, But Attention Pays Me!”

“Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.”

“You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.”

“There is a kind of fallout that happens when you leave college. The classroom is a wonderful, if artificial, place: Your professor gets paid to pay attention to your ideas, and your classmates are paying to pay attention to your ideas. Never again in your life will you have such a captive audience.”